Sleeping bag



Dec. 27, 1927. 1,653,815

. M. B. MILLAR SLEEPING BAG' Filed July 5, 1924 Patented Dec. 27, 1927.

uurrso STATES.

MARGARET BAIRD MILLAR, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

SLEEPING BAG.

Application filed July 5, 1924. Serial No. 734,502.

This invention is a sleeping bag for children, particularly infants.

One of the difficulties encountered with sleeping bags as heretofore constructed for children, is providing a proper fastening for the bag around the neck of the child, so that the will be held securely around the neck and shoulders, yet without any danger of constricting the breathing, and also obviating any possibility of the child becoming strangled by such fastening. According to this invention, the head end of the bag is provided with a comparatively large opening which may be large enough for the insertion of the child into the bag, which opening is bridged by a pair of shoulder straps which pass transversely across the opening, preferably from the top to the bottom of the bag. These shoulder straps are preferably buttoned or otherwise detachably secured to the bottom portion of the bag, the buttons being back of the childsshoulders, so that there is practically no possibility of the child reaching such buttons and unfastening them.

Another important feature of the invention is the provision of tying tapes along the longitudinal edges of the bag which are intended to be tied to the vertical posts of the childs crib some little distance above the mattress, whereby the upper portion of the 25 sus ension of the u er ortion of the ba D over the child gives considerable freedom inside the bag for the child to raise its knees and kick, an activity much indulged in by normally active infants, all without a kicking off the covers.

The bag is preferably open at both ends that the child may be inserted at either end and so that the childs clothing may be changed when desired without taking it out 5 of the bag.

According to a modified form of the invention, the longitudinal tying tapes instead of being attached along the two longitudinal edges of the bag, are set inwardly of the top 50 of the bag a short distance, so that when they are drawn tight and tied to the crib posts, there is still more freedom for the childs legs inside the bag. I

Other advantages of the invention will be .3 apparent from the accompanying drawing illustrating preferred embodiments of the invention.

In these drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the bag.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. i

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the bag.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 -4E of Fig. 1. i i

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1. Y i

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modification, and

Fig. 7 is a cross section through Fig. 6.

Referring now to these drawings in which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, the crib mattress and the crib posts are indicated at M and P respectively.

The bag comprises a bottom portion 1, a top portion 2 secured together along their longitudinal edges 3. The foot end l of the bag is preferably open all the way across. The head end of the bag is provided with an opening 5 extending nearly all away across the bag. A pair of shoulder straps 6 is secured to the top 2 of the bag, extend transversely across the opening 5 and are detachably secured to the bottom portion 1 of the bag by buttons 7 cooperating with button holes in the strap 6; any other desired fastening means could be used for the shoulder straps.

In order to suspend the top portion of the bag over the child and relieve it of the weight of the covers, and to give it room to kick, a plurality of tying tapes 8 are provided, preferably arranged in pairs and secured at intervals along the longitudinal edges 3 of the bag. As shown in Fig. 3, these tapes are tied to the crib posts P some little distance above the mattress so that the top 2 of the bag is suspended over the child and the weight of the bed clothing more or less sustained by the tying tapes 8 and crib posts P, thus forming a space S 1 within the bag which gives considerable freedom of movement to the child. Since both ends of the bag are open the child may be inserted from either end. After the child is within the bag, the shoulder 105 straps are buttoned and there is no possibility of the child reaching the buttons and unfastening these straps. It is particularly important to note that the shoulder straps impose no circumferential restricting force 110 around the neck of the child. Since no draw strings are used, there is no possibility of a fiareless nurse maid tying the strings too tightly and thereby interferingwith the childs breathing. v

Due to the fact that the foot end of the bag is open all the Way across, the childs clothing may be changed while it is in the bag without removing the child therefrom.

In the modification shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the tying tapes 10 are attached to the upper portion 2 of the bag at points 11 which are Well Within the longitudinal edges 3 of the bag, As indicated in Fig. 7, when the tying tapes are fastened to the crib .posts at a suitable distance above the mattress, a substantial amount of space S is provided inside the bag allowing the child consider able freedom and relieving it of the weight of the bed clothing. The tying tapes 10 at the foot end of the bag are attached as are the tapes in Fig. 1.

While I have illustrated certain preferred embodiments of my invention, it should be understood that the invention may be earried out in other ways as expressed Within the scope of the following claim.

' What I claim is A sleeping bag for children comprising; top and bottom hag-forming portions, the bag being open at both its head and foot, the openings being large enough to permit the child to be put into or removed from the bag at either end, shoulder straps carried by the top portion of the bag at the head end thereof, extending transversely across the opening at that end, and being detachably secured to the bottom portion and tying tapes carried by the top portion of the bag at points inset with respect to the longitudinal edges thereof, whereby when the tapes are tied to the posts at both sides of the childs crib, the top of the bag held elevated above the bottom thereof for providing a larg 'ee space for the child inside the bag. i i

In testimony Whereot I allix my signature.

MARGARET B. lYIILLA Tl. 

